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ONLY
Definition of ONLY
adjective
Alone in a category.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English oonly, only, from Old English ānlīċ, ǣnlīċ (“only; singular; solitary”), from Proto-Germanic *ainalīkaz. Cognate with obsolete Dutch eenlijk, German ähnlich (“similar”), Old Norse álíkr, Swedish enlig (“unified”). By surface analysis, on(e) + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (976)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Dutch, Old Norse, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ONLY in OUTLIER
It has fitted 33 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ONLY starts with O and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read LNOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found ONLY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
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